Orders reversed, coram nobis applications granted to the extent that the sentence imposed on May 14, 1971 is vacated, and the case is remanded to the Criminal Term for resentence.
It is undisputed that at the time of the sentence defendant was a narcotic addict; that the Narcotic Addiction Control Commission was not then accepting criminal defendants (former Mental Hygiene Law, § 208); and that the sentencing court wanted to commit defendant to the commission...
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